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TIL that the resting place of Karl Marx has an entry fee

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okj8 TIL the United States and Canada account for 98% of global cranberry production
4WPo TIL that to this day, no one knows who turned in Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.
neyao TIL about beach theft, or the illegal removal of large quantities of sand from a beach leading to full or partial disappearance of the beach. In 2008 in Jamaica, someone stole approximately 500 truckloads of sand from a beach, effectively making it "disappear".
QJYaX TIL that the Pacific Ocean is getting smaller and the Atlantic Ocean is getting bigger due to shifting of the Tectonic Plates
N7RxN TIL that a fifth of people in Greenland have attempted suicide, which is four times the global prevalence.